Research Program / Claims / emotions-12
Scientists' current tools are already insufficient; inner senses must be used. One should explore seemingly empty places, for they are full; one should seek the gaps between events. The psyche is where inner and outer senses converge.
科学家现有工具已不足，必须使用内在感官；应探索看似空无之处，因为那里充盈，要寻找事件之间的间隙；心灵是内外感官交汇处。
Concept emotions · Domain Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation · methodological suggestion · interface 3/3 · testability 3/3 · status untested · ★ fundable
This program treats the Seth Material as a source of hypotheses, not as doctrine to be validated. Lead dossiers are AI-compiled from the corpus with a book-and-session citation after every statement; literature reviews are AI web-search summaries whose references were all DOI-verified against Crossref; the agenda draft is an AI synthesis. None of it is Seth's original text, and none of it represents scientific consensus. English fields are machine-translated; the Chinese text is authoritative.
Seth sources (book §session)
Adjudicating experiment
Supplementary question 4: approximately 180 participants are randomly assigned to imagine moving behind objects, standard mental rotation training, or an equal-duration active control, trained for 6 weeks, 5 sessions per week, 20 minutes each, with assessments before/after training and at 3-month follow-up; about 120 undergo fMRI, with pre-registered intraparietal sulcus and superior parietal lobule indicators, while matching difficulty, performance, eye movements, and head motion. Separately test the backside inferable from already seen structures and a backside marker randomly placed by the experimenter and never shown; hidden markers use automated randomization, double-blinding, and immutable records. Only the latter, if consistently above chance, would involve a perceptual claim beyond visual imagery.
Suggested paper title
Visual Perspective-Taking Training, Parietal Plasticity, and Inference About Occluded Objects: A Preregistered Randomized Study
What it would overturn
If participants can consistently report random hidden markers that were neither perceived nor inferable, this would challenge the assumption that mental imagery can only reorganize acquired information and cannot acquire objective external target information.
Candidate labs / funders
Martin Lotze，University Medicine Greifswald（功能影像与运动意象）; Sebastian Strauß（心理旋转及分级运动意象）; G. Lorimer Moseley（分级运动意象与疼痛研究）
Specificity of Seth's formulation
The necessity of using inner senses and seeking gaps between events lacks tasks and criteria; the practice of imagining moving behind objects can be operationalized, but it is a concrete procedure introduced by the supplementary question, not an experiment already given in the paraphrase.
Note
Enhanced or reduced parietal activation after training could arise from ordinary learning, strategy, or difficulty changes; activation changes alone cannot establish a new sensory modality. Seemingly empty space cannot be equated without argument to the quantum vacuum or to neural processing intervals between events.
Evidence (1, DOI-verified via Crossref)
Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim emotions-12, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/emotions-12